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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Literature
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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The rich man's sons inherits cares The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.
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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Ye come and go incessant we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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